THE CAMPAIGN of Solidarity with the people of Turkey, located in England has requested for the state of emergency in Turkey to be removed.
The organisation named as SPOT, in short, organised a full day conference on January 20, Saturday. In regards to the July 15 coup initiative, discussions on the developments were debated in many meetings and there was an intensive participation in the conference.
There were many well-known speakers from England and Turkey which attended the conference. The Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn also sent a message and gave support.
The conference was attended by the DİSK General Chairman Kani Beko, Universal General Director Fatih Polat, HDP Deputy Hishyar Ozsoy, CHP deputy Mehmet Tüm, DİSK Food-Business Chairman Seyit Aslan, Journalist-Writer Aydın Çubukçu and Mustafa Yalçıner, British trade unionists, journalist, and politician participated as speakers.
Once the participants received the news of Turkey’s operations against Afrin, they condemned the operation.
Hişyar Özsoy, a politician from the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) also attended the conference and noted that the forces of democracy and peace opponents against the operation should combine to oppose it.
Mehmet Tüm, politician from the Republican People’s Party
(CHP) said that the civilian coup that was declared by the state of emergency should be removed as soon as possible, also he said: “no dictator ever stayed until the end”.
The conference took place all day which consisted of two main meetings and six different working groups. During the conference generally, political prisoners, academics, women, workers, trade unions, Kurds, Middle East and disabling the Turkish Parliament were discussed.